Network News

PRONTO Conference

January 2018: The final PRONTO conference on Quantifying Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade and Investment will take place in Vienna. For more information see the program.

Data Updates

January 2018: New datasets have been uploaded to the website. These include global value chain AVEs and the EU RASFF with imputed HS codes.

PRONTO Research

December 2017:A consolidated overview of the research outputs in the PRONTO project can be found here.

MAST Workshop

October 2017: The next workshop on NTM classification with the MAST group is scheduled for October 2017 at the UNCTAD headquarters in Geneva.

World Trade Forum

October 2017: The next World Trade Forum is scheduled for October in Grindelwald. It will include update sessions on PRONTO NTM data and WTO services data.

ETSG Conference

September 2017: The next ETSG conference is planned for September 2017 in Florence. Several papers based on PRONTO data will be presented

PRONTO Conference

September 2017:The final PRONTO conference is planned for January 2018 in Vienna. We will post a call for papers here.

NTM Data Portal

September 2017: The database portal is under construction and is available at this link: NTM data portal (beta). At the moment this is with limited access while we continue construction and stress testing.

Interim Datasets

September 2017: We continue to post intermediate datasets. Check the Interim Downloads section of this site.

Workshop in Paris

April 2017:We recently held a conference and dissemination event in Paris in March 2017. The final program is here

MAST Group Meeting

October 2016:A joint UNCTAD/PRONTO workshop on NTM classification (with the MAST group) was held in Geneva in October 2016.